James has shown a ridiculous penchant for going for it on fourth down in Big Games, more often to his team's detriment. He did it again today. Ohio State was -10 going into the game. They covered, in Trumpy Valley. As I confessed earlier I thought this afternoon of predicting a PSU win. Thought James had shot his Deez-Nuts last week and would be...drained this week.
However after OSU had taken a 7-0 lead PSU got the ball on the kickoff at their own 25, picked up one first down at their 37 and then faced 4th and two at their own 45. James went for it and his QB passed incomplete. There was 11:21 left in the 1Q when 4th-and-two Franklin turned the ball over to OSU. Five plays and two and one-half minutes later it was 14-0 "Bucks." The Pedo Bears would never get out of d.d.'s again.
Why, James? What evidence did you have to believe that the risk of turning the ball over on your side of the field was outweighed by your team's ability, with near certainty I'd imagine, that you would pick up the two yards or that your defense could keep OSU from scoring? You had no evidence to justify the call, James, you had only your weird testosterone boost which you mistake for a football IQ boost. No, that was not game since PSU scored 25 points the rest of the way and maybe James thought his defense, having given up 14 points on OSU's first two possessions would clamp down on the "Buckeyes" and hold them to under 25. James thought something of the sort if he thought at all. James' thinking, if that's what it was, was faulty as it has so frequently been, and PSU was out of the game less than half-way through the 1Q.
Off the final score and OSU QB Justin Fields' Heisman front-runner performance PSU was not going to win the game but Big Game Flame James Franklin saw to it that they wouldn't.
